williamm21 wrote:Second try first not seen if its there sorry. If the choice was of sis Chipset (745) or KT400 which would you prefer.

I only tested one SiS 745 board. The first one was damaged during shipping so I sent it back; the second one would crash during 3Dmark. Tried different drivers, BIOS options, and two new sticks of Corsair RAM and nothing seemed to solve the problem. The memory bandwidth test was nothing to write home to mom about -- 2.1GB/sec. All in all, it wasn't too impressive and there aren't that many boards out there that use this chipset.

-Jem

"The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it." -Mark Twain

do you have any opinion or suggestion for dual xeon motherboard (server). i mean you were point out about supermicro and intel, do you have any idea what the model number. i searched around and found there are a few model number using E7501 chipset.

btw..both of those brands and Intel are pretty expensive tho , do you think its worth it the price, compare to AMD. (the price for motherboard and processor both twice more expensive then AMD system).

The primary difference between E7505 and E7501 is hardware support. E7501 boards generally only support "server only" hardware (like PCI-X for instance) and the E7505 boards will usually support both desktop and "server only" hardware to a limited extent.

All P4 Xeon processors in production are HT-capable, from the 2.4 to the 3.06. The only 533FSB Northwood P4 (the desktop socket478 CPU) that is HT-capable is the 3.06; all of the 800FSB P4 processors are HT-capable. No other CPUs support Hyper-Threading Technology.

-Jem

"The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it." -Mark Twain

Great topic Valour! I'm agree with you and all that you said is what I say myself to my friends. I'm agree that the better thing to do to have an "innexpensive" and powerful system is to update it often (don't buy newest,"up to date" parts...to expensive...buy 1 or 2 level under). You already have a compu? (about 1 or 2 years) A lots of parts are still good. So, you don't have to pay 1000$ (or more) to buy a brand new computer. And if you wait to many years and wait to buy a brand new compu, it will cost you 1000$ + every 4-5 years and during this time, you will not have a powerful computer. So, consider to buy for 100$ to 200$ every years and you will always have a good, powerful computer and it will cost less (or the same price but you will have, at every moment, a good computer) than if you changed it just 5 years later.

Personnaly, I buy for about 200$/years of parts.

This is the first specs of my computer... and the changes iI have done on it.